The real Santa was totally different.
The Coca-Cola Santa is just a hoax.
The Real Santa Clause,
he tears naughty kids to pieces.
Not even the skeletons are left....
While recently searching for 'naked Santa's, (as one does...) I came upon a image for a dozen or so naked Santa's being hosed down in a shower.... This of course begged for a digger dive and a deeper search. This led me to to discover the image was from a 2010 film titled Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale.
A Christmas Tale is a Finnish dark fantasy horror thriller film written and directed by Jalmari Helander. The film focus is about a group of people living near the Korvatunturi mountain who discover the secret behind Santa Claus. Soon to be learned lesson... he's not always so jolly.
Young Pietari lives with his stern reindeer-herding father Rauno in arctic Finland. On the eve of Christmas, an enormous excavation at a nearby mountain disturbs the locals and captures Pietari's curiosity.
When Rauno's raindeer herd is mysteriously slain and the children in town go missing, Pietari realizes that the dig has unearthed the evil Santa Claus of local lore - who no one wants coming to town.
Pietari's father rounds up a posse and captures the nightmarish creature in an attempt to sell him to the misguided leader sponsoring the dig. But Santa's freakish elves will stop at nothing to free their fearless leader, and what ensues is a fantastically bizarre holiday adventure testing the bond of father and son and pitting man against mythology.
After those Santa's are herded together and trapped, they require a a good wash down before being ready to hit the malls and give out candy canes. A Christmas Tale may involved children, but the movies certainly not for them.
